Chapter 2.
"Chihiro! Get out of bed, it's 7:15! You're going to be late if you don't hurry up!" Chihiro practically jumped out of her skin when she heard her mother from down the hall. She normally starts walking to school at 7:45. She threw off her covers and ran to the bathroom. "I'm up! My alarm didn't go off!" she yelled to her mother with a mouth full of toothpaste. She heard a door slam, her dad had just left for work. Once she was done brushing her teeth, Chihiro ran back to her room, rummaged through her cabinets and found a clean uniform to put on for school. She grabbed her backpack and almost ran out of the door when she remembered to fix her hair. She walked over to her night stand and grabbed a sparkly purple hair band, gathered all of her hair and twisted the band twice around it. This hair band was very special to her, her friends made it. Yu-Bird, No-Face, Boh and Zeniba all helped.
"Chihiro I'm leaving, have a good day at school!" her mother yelled-the door slammed again. Chihiro jumped and snapped out of her trance-like train of thought. This seemed to happen to her quite often, she couldn't control it most of the time either. Everything related to the Spirit World gave an eerie sort of feeling whenever she thought about it. Even so, she missed it more than anything.
As she started walking out the door, she tripped. Chihiro leaned forward and picked up what looked to be one of her finished diaries. "W-W-W-W-WHAT? How did this get downstairs?" Her jaw fell to the floor as she checked to see if the lock was still intact. It was. Chihiro let out a huge sigh of relief as she ran back upstairs to put her journal back in the shoe box under her bed, joining many others.
She was taking the short cut to school like she normally did, but this time it was different. She walked down the hill from her house like usual, but when she went to walk past the tunnel that she had became so familiar with, a huge sudden gust of wind flew past her and towards the mysterious tunnel, as if it was trying to pull her in. The unusual change in climate startled her and she dropped one of her books. As she kneeled down to pick it back up, another gust of wind flew past her and the tunnel started making an extraordinarily loud moaning sound. She'd heard this sound before.
Being the bold and curious girl she is, Chihiro started walking towards the entrance of the tunnel, like she had a thousand times. As she proceeded, she realized that something was different. She could see daylight from inside. The stone wall that was normally at the end had disappeared or had been knocked down. "Some builders probably found this place and started to tear it down", she mumbled to herself. She got to the chapel-like room and felt almost at home. Not paying any attention to the seemed to be knocked down wall on the other end of the room, Chihiro checked her cell phone that she had just felt vibrate inside her bag.
"Where are you, Chihiro? You're half an hour late! Classes already started!" –Akira
Akira was one of Chihiro's many friends that she met at school. They met on the first day of the 9th grade. Chihiro was rummaging through her bag, looking for the slip of paper with her locker combination when she ran straight into Akira! Ever since, they've been inseparable.
"Shoot! I'm late! I haven't been here that long, have I?" Chihiro scolded to herself as she smacked her forehead.
Just as she was texting her friend back, Chihiro's phone lost service. "Dang. And no service either. Great." She was tucking her phone back away into her bag as she heard that same distinct moaning coming from all 4 walls around her. That same wind pushed past her and towards the "invisible" stone wall. It startled Chihiro, but she didn't do anything other than look ahead of her and sigh. 'School can wait.' She thought.